Assistant Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2019
rostcm@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Website: https://www.christinarost.com/
Research Description
Dr. Rost's interests are experimental in nature and include novel material exploration, complex oxide synthesis, X-ray based materials characterization techniques, crystallography, and extreme temperature processes.
Education
- PhD in Materials Science & Engineering, 2016, North Carolina State University
- MS in Experimental Physics, 2012, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- BS in Physics, 2009, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Select Publications
- C. M. Rost, E. Sachet, T. Borman, A. Moballegh, E. C. Dickey, D. Hou, J. L. Jones, S. Curtarolo, and J.-P. Maria, “Entropy-stabilized oxides,” Nature Communications, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015.
- C. M. Rost, Z. Rak, D. W. Brenner, and J.-P. Maria, “Local structure of the MgxNixCoxCuxZnxO(x=0.2) entropy-stabilized oxide: An EXAFS study,” Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 100, no. 6, pp. 2732–2738, Oct. 2017.
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J. L. Braun, C. M. Rost, M. Lim, A. Giri, D. H. Olson, G. N. Kotsonis, G. Stan, D. W. Brenner, J.-P. Maria, and P. E. Hopkins, “Charge-Induced Disorder Controls the Thermal Conductivity of Entropy-Stabilized Oxides,” Advanced Materials, vol. 30, no. 51, p. 1805004, 2018.
Department of Physics & Astronomy
